Source: REUTERS
Meta Platforms-owned (META.O), Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Reporting on the issue, REUTERS News said the disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to Downdetector.com.
The REUTERS News report quoted Meta spokesperson Andy Stone, who responded to the issue via X social media.
"We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Stone said in a post on X social media.
REUTERS News also reports that even messaging platform WhatsApp was affected by the service outage.
“Meta's status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues,” REUTERS said. “There were around 200 reports of outages for WhatsApp on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.”
REUTERS said the outage was among the top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with several users saying they had suddenly been logged out of the Meta-owned social media platforms.
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REUTERS News reporter Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru filed the original report, which was edited by editors Anil D'Silva and Krishna Chandra Eluri.